Industry & technology (215 pages found in this category)


Forest of Dean Coalfield

The Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire contains one of the smaller coalfields in the British Isles which for hundreds of years was regulated by a system of freemining.

Frank Harris Fulford

Canadian-born entrepreneur, art collector and businessman

Frederick Becker

Industrialist with worldwide interests in the manufacture of pulp and paper, owner of Ellon Castle estate from 1919–1929.

Fuji Cabin

Three-wheeled microcar produced by Fuji Toshuda Motors of Tokyo, Japan, from 1957 until 1958.

Gin Pit Colliery

Colliery that operated on the Lancashire Coalfield from the 1840s in Tyldesley Lancashire, England.

Gong farmer

Gong farmer (also gongfermor, gongfermour, gong-fayer, gong-fower or gong scourer) is a term that entered use in Tudor England to describe someone who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits; the word gong was used for both a privy and its contents.

Grange Ash Colliery

Colliery that operated between 1871 and 1966, south of the A642 road east of Grange Moor crossroads.

Great Boys Colliery

Great Boys Colliery in Tyldesley was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield in the second half of the 19th century in Lancashire, England.

Great County Adit

System of underground tunnels that drained tin and copper mines between Redruth and Bissoe in west Cornwall.

Great Flat Lode

Large ore-bearing body of rock under the southern slopes of Carn Brea, south of Camborne in Cornwall, England.